Condensing Bard with Morphing Buttons

[HyoMinPark]

Though, let's go ahead and consider Iron Jaws for a moment.

The last time IJ made any sort of sense was probably HW, or at the further in ShB in what incredibly few council fights-ish bosses we have or, vastly more frequent, when having multi-DoTed mid-gather during dungeons. ShB then removed most incentive for doing so anyways.

What does the skill exist to do now? To make you Refulgent>Burst more -- or, to do anything else less. That's it. It exists to reduce button-press variety after the 45+1GCD mark.

Um… Iron Jaws was VERY important in Stormblood. IJ optimization was very important for snapshotting critical hit buffs and manipulating your Repertoire… IJ optimization basically died in ShB, but it is still relevant for snapshotting during buff windows for buffed DoTs. Just not nearly as critical to BRD optimization as it was in SB.

Never stopped SE before. Considering how crazed SE has become in "streamlining" classes, I can see a number of ways they could do that for BRD.

The point of what you quoted was to directly contest a poster just a second ago who said that bard has a massive button bloat.